Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge Problems...

[BRM]

----- Original Message ----

> From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> Sent: Sun, January 30, 2011 7:03:27 AM
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge Problems...
>
> On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 20:12:26 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote:
>
> > Well, I fixed  there server - initially by just grabbing a new copy of
> > portage like a  new install since it was just completely hosed, and the
> > server is back  up and working. However, now my desktop and laptop are
> > both having  problems. They sync just fine against the server, but I get
> > a series of  errors about not having various ebuilds in the manifest
> > files - so many  that I can't emerge anything (even portage).
>
> Completely remove the  portage tree, fsck the filesystem and then resync.

Well, I certainly have to try that out.

> Of course, you can get  your other systems working by commenting out any
> SYNC entries in make.conf  and letting them sync directly with the Gentoo
> servers.

Can't edit the files on the laptop, possible on the desktop though.

> From: Francesco Talamona <francesco.talamona@××××.eu>
> It seems your three systems  share a broken portage tree, try with the
> latest portage snapshot, for  example from
> http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/snapshots/
>
> You  can also skip the sync and put it directly on the clients to see if
> the  rsync service on server is broken...
>
> Once you stabilize the root cause,  it's time to focus on the other
> issues (for example run a non-X runlevel on  the laptop to fix the login
> issue, use nano until vim is ok, and so  on).

I'm not a fan of nano, so I uninstalled it a long time ago. I usually use vim; 
not sure why vim is referencing perl libraries, but oh well.

And yes - fixing the portage issue is the first step. After that everything else 
will just fall out - since I can just run the various emerges and perl-cleaner.

Ben